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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Future Of Enterprise Applications

Will Emerging Dynamic Business Apps End The Reign Of Packaged Apps?

The $103 billion enterprise applications market has experienced massive consolidation over the past few years and has delivered moderate innovation and revenue growth. Meanwhile, globalization, rapid...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Tools For IT Planning

Strategic planning is more difficult than ever. Today's volatile economic environment means that IT must plan quickly, more flexibly, and more thoroughly. Plans that don't follow this path quickly...

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For Business Process Professionals

Report:Business Process & Applications Professionals: Must-Read Research In An Economic Downturn

Although the first half of 2008 showed a steady pace of technology spending, according to our latest research it's very likely that a slowdown is coming. And in a down economy, businesses face tough...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Develop A Technology Watch List

The Top 15 Technology Trends To Watch

As IT executives set out their strategies and plan for 2010 and beyond, they must determine what the top technology trends are for their business and gauge IT's ability to support the next phase of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Do CIOs Care About IT Management Tools?

CIOs are constantly working to run IT like a business — focusing on business orientation through capabilities like IT planning, portfolio management, and IT investment optimization. A myriad of...

• Downloads: 966

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Five Trends That Will Shape The Business Process And Applications Profession In 2008

Many business process and applications professionals rightfully focus their attention on the immediate project at hand, like an application upgrade or specific process improvement project. Yet many...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: New Sourcing Models Mean New Tactics For IT

As emerging sourcing models such as managed hosting, SaaS, PaaS, and cloud-based services become more prevalent, traditional sourcing tactics, terms, and expectations may no longer be adequate. CIOs...

• Downloads: 625

For CIO Professionals

Report:Enterprise Software Budgets And Initiatives

Consolidation, Modernization, And Collaboration Are Top Software Priorities

Budgeting and planning season is right around the corner, and an armful of new and unproven technologies and software initiatives promise to change the way IT conducts its business. IT organizations...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Insist On TEI Calculations To Justify Business-Critical IT Investments

Now more than ever, IT executives face difficult decisions around which IT investments in their portfolios to execute on, cancel, or defer. IT executives must identify the projects that are...

• Downloads: 588

For CIO Professionals

Report:Two Texas Healthcare CIOs — Driven To Innovate

Texas Health And CHRISTUS Health Both Have Entrepreneurial Execs

It's an exciting time to be a healthcare CIO. Technology advancements, healthcare consumerism, and government funding have created a perfect storm of opportunity for innovation. Forrester recently...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Use TEI To Unearth IT Investment "Options"

As firms look to squeeze value from technology, IT executives' ability to understand, quantify, and communicate the flexibility options of an IT investment becomes vital for business health....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Consider Apps Support Alternatives For Cost Savings

Third-Party Apps Maintenance Is A Viable Option — Particularly In Tough Times

Paying in advance for rarely used upgrades of applications like enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other software makes little sense in today's economic environment. Representing one-third of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:SOA: Dead Or Alive?

Some recent buzz in the industry would have you believe that SOA is dead, but that just isn't the case — in fact, its use and influence are still growing. Stories of less-than-successful...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: The Web's Golden Age Is Ending

As CIOs continue to evaluate business technology and plan for future investments, it is essential to accept the fact that the golden age of the Internet is ending. In the past decade, nearly all...

• Downloads: 426

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Making Sense Of Sensor Data

A Market Overview Of X Internet Software Platforms And Applications

The Extended Internet (X Internet) revolution is underway, with X Internet software about to take off to make sense of data that comes from technologies like RFID, sensors, and actuators that offer...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Queensland Police Service Executes GIS By The Book

Faced with disparate policing systems, corresponding silos of data, and degraded data quality, Australia's Queensland Police Service (QPS) launched a large-scale police records management and...

• Downloads: 280

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Possible Field Service Boon Despite Recession

Four Trends To Stay On Top Of To Be Successful In 2009

Trailing a year's worth of economic challenges for businesses and consumers alike, the recession has hit — hard. While many undoubtedly look to curb spending and get the most from assets...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Categorize And Define Technology Investment Risk

Failed, delayed, and misaligned IT projects have fueled business executives' dissatisfaction with IT. The benefit and cost estimates of technology investments provided by IT executives are often far...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Note The IT Market Outlook, Q2 2009

It's no surprise that the Q1 2009 tech market indicator data was dismal; however, Forrester predicts that the US tech market is more than halfway through the downturn. Poor Q1 results in both the US...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business Process And Applications Pros Should Embrace Informal Learning Methods

Continuously building knowledge is critical to improving the quality of your workforce, which is necessary now more than ever. But uncertain economic times mean human resources (HR) professionals...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Priorities Shift As Business' Grip On Technology Tightens

CIOs Can Drive Better Tech Decisions — Even When Business Is Making Them

In Q4 2008, Forrester surveyed 1,104 IT decision-makers to find out how they set their budgets and allocated funds to different software types and initiatives. As part of this study, Forrester asked...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Economic Insights For Process And Apps Pros

Plan For Inevitable Project Reprioritizations

Given the gloomy economic climate, businesses large and small have difficult decisions ahead on the path to fiscal responsibility and stability. IT shops will be tempted and coerced to cut back in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business Process And Apps Economic Downturn Insights

Data highlights from Forrester¿s November 2008 Global Economic Downturn Insights Online Survey.